Over the weekend an update occurred and my Alcatel One Touch Evolve 2 could no longer connect to Bluetooth devices that required a pin number. After doing a factory data reset and reinstalling my apps Bluetooth worked fine. Cut to this afternoon and the update came through again and Bluetooth no longer works. How can I get this fixed so I don't have to keep resetting my phone to use the hands free feature on my car radio?

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Well, that's no fun having to reset your phone for Bluetooth magenta2040228. I'm curious, is there any error message that shows up when you try to connect these devices? Have you tested any other devices besides your car's wireless connection to see if they work? Please keep us posted. Thank you!

Well, it looks like forcing it to not update things through Google Play is doing the trick. Beats me what was bricking it, but I'm taking no chances. The odd thing is that everything I had on there with the exception of WinAmp was loaded at the factory originally. And WinAmp hasn't updated in a bazillion years, so it wasn't an update of that the bricked it. Oh, well, I don't really have to worry too much about the OS, all I use the phone for is a phone and listening to my podcasts that I load from my computer at home.

So, keeping apps from updating through Google Play allows your phone to work? If that's the case, the issue sounds like it's coming from one of the of the applications. It's possible that it's not every app, it could be just one or a few. Do you have any installed that use some kind of wireless connection that could conflict with your Bluetooth? You could uninstall apps like that and it might help.

The only app that was on there that I installed that uses Bluetooth was Winamp. All the other apps came preloaded with the phone and installed when I did a factory reset.

Right now I have Play set up to download updates only when I tell it to, and I haven't been letting it. I can't remember what else I had to do to stop updates from being updated, but it appears to be preventing the OS from updating as well.